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Tamarac


Company info:

Top Executive: Stuart DePina
http://www.tamaracinc.com/
866-525-8811
811 First Avenue, Suite 340
Seattle, WA 98104

Etcetera:

  • 100 FTEs
  • Founded in 2000

Q&A:

What is the service or product you offer to RIAs?

Tamarac provides institutional level technologies and outsourced portfolio management services to independent advisors – both breakaway and established.
Tamarac Advisor® is a web-based RIA platform that integrates: CRM, performance reporting, portfolio rebalancing, trading, customer portal and various thir party applications. Additionally, Tamarac provides outsourced portfolio management services, run by financial services professionals that know your business, giving you the most powerful technology and back-office outsourcing solution available.

How do you differentiate your offering from competitors'?

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